Collegespeaks Blog

I thought this would be a better way of addressing the queries that we get through our contact sections and other websites. New users keep asking us- ‘Now that we have registered with Collegespeaks, what next?’

Unlike social networking sites, where a user’s arena extends to everything from making friends to expanding professional network, Collegespeaks caters to this niche segment where a user can find everything about Indian campuses.

Your identity on Collegespeaks is therefore associated with the college(s) you have attended or are still attending. It is extremely important that you be a part of a campus that you have actually been to because only then you will be able to share your campus experiences and also stay connected with your campus even after passing out. Sharing campus experiences will then become a trend that will be carried on by your juniors. You will be verifying your immediate juniors and the others whom you can recognize from the time you were in college. You can even guide your juniors or any other prospective student, who is interested in joining your college, about the future career prospects after passing out from your alma-mater.

Once this chain is established, you will always be able to keep track of the changes your college has gone through - you can see how your annual function is now celebrated, the professors who are still teaching or some of your batchmates who have turned professors and many more interesting facts. So keep posting…..

Collegespeaks as a website and as a concept has also been listed on allthingsweb2.com. The response and the ratings received have been very encouraging and thanks a lot for rating us popular. We look forward to more of such feedbacks.

Finally…..Collegespeaks.com is launched. It was in September last year, when the idea seeded. I was with my husband in one of those sarkari rest houses (with flora & fauna in abundance to the extent of thinking and even being creative at times, as you can see) – back from Glasgow – and never ceasing to think of newer ways and ideas of using the web more interactively.

What started as a platform to provide inside information about colleges, shared by students themselves, took the current shape with not just students but also colleges having a space for them. Collegespeaks.com, as it looks today, is the result of actually delving into a hundred thousand websites, some very good suggestions from Akshay & Chaula (for having the site development in safe hands) and of course, my husband, with his management insights & fundas. So here we are!!! Collegespeaks.com is now in closed beta version and has opened to colleges for registration. Over the year, Collegespeaks.com has built a sound database of colleges and their courses from across India. Not to mention, the innumerous complexities created by the lack of availability of information in our country and all the possible threats of which people have made us aware of, time and again. All this has only contributed to getting rid yet another hurdle and helped us tap yet another opportunity. We have now entered the next phase – a step ahead (or may be many steps ahead) since we started last September. Every day there is something new to learn and every passing day gives an increased confidence as we talk to more and more colleges. I’ll come back soon with more updates.

  Vidya Vyas
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